Primary when iowa caucus winner Pete Buttigieg endorsed Court Packing. Now it is back in the news again in the general elections following the passing of justice ginsburg. I am not writing this book because Court Packing is back in the news. I have always been interested in the new deal. It is a constitutionally significant error in our industry. It never received quite as much attention as it deserved on that front. Scholarshipeal there has not nearly been enough attention paid to the role the public paid played in shaping some of those constitutional developments. That is why im writing the book. I want to tell you a little bit more about it. We may as well get started with the powerpoint. Lets talk a little bit more about the new deal and the constitution and the role Public Opinion played. Couple of things today. First, i want to recap the standard history of the new deal. Discussion of the constitution that took place. The next thing i want to do is bring Public Opinion back to th
Some of fdrs initiatives, such as increasing the number of Supreme Court justices. This class took place online and the university of maryland Baltimore County provided the video. Prof. Blake we are going to be talking about the first two chapters of my book manuscript today. Which looks at the role Public Opinion played during the new deal and specifically the constitutional controversy of the new deal. It is worth telling you one thing about why i am not writing this book. Court packing has gotten back in the news, both during the democratic primary season when iowa caucus winner Pete Buttigieg endorsed Court Packing. Now it is back in the news again in the general elections following the passing of justice ginsburg. I am not writing this book because Court Packing is back in the news. I have always been interested in the new deal. It is a constitutionally significant error in our industry. It never received quite as much attention as it deserved on that front. In the new deal schola
Were going to try to do that im sorry the Vice President had more time than shes had so far and theres against President Donald Trump. Regarding men and women of our armed forces are absurd im sorry Vice President s up to the United States marine corps my son in laws deployed in the United States navy i can assure all of you with sons and daughters serving in our military President Donald Trump not only respects but reveres all of those who serve in our armed forces and any suggestion otherwise ridiculous labels i say in paris that ive heard people deserve this is your 3rd and people decided to tell various president s i did i could maybe get it or not susan i didnt want me to know for tonight joe biden here campaigns agreed to the rules for tonight i bait with the commission on present of us im here to enforce them which involves moving from one topic to another giving roughly equal time to both of you right which is what im trying very hard to go read it so i want to go ahead and mov
Reynolds. On the law professor at the university of tennessee. We are talking today about free speech and incitement and were going to get started on obscenity. We will be a last socratic than usual today because the cspan people asking to be. Heres the textbook we are using. Constitutional law. Its a good case book. Its the first time ive used this one actually, so we are still learning our way here. Today we are talking about free speech. We have been talking about equal protection. Weve been talking about race discrimination and gender and things like that. Now we are pivoting to a core part of the bill of rights on a different section entirely, its all about free speech. We know they value free speech very highly, to the extent that they talked about it, its mostly political. More than artistic or expressive. The interesting thing about the First Amendment. Almost all the case law comes from the 20th century, for the 21st, and there are a couple of reasons for that. One is that man
Thank you for joining us today. I have been a scholar here for almost 20 years. To summarize the overall argument and the theme of the book. And to secure the benefits of that energetics successor and describe the overall argument in the book. That is great writing. Thats a fair summary on the book when trump ran for president 2016 i was wary of him. He wasnt my first pack and one reason is because he is a populist land the constitution fears populist if you think of them like fdr or Andrew Jackson people who think they have the popular will behind them in the constitution is seen as an obstacle clearly to people like fdr so you thought trump would come into the office and find the constitution an obstacle to what he wanted to do but the last in half and four years of what i have seen is the opponents went to change constitutional changes like the Electoral College so between nine and 16 members that would be terrible for Judicial Independence for the rule of law. They dont want to sup